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• floppy disc

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名詞

floppy disk (複数形 floppy disks)

1. (computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
   • 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

     A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.

   • 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.

同意語

• disk / diskette
• floppy
• floppy diskette

関連する語

• flippy disk / flippy diskette
• floppy disk drive

派生した語

• → Italian: floppy disk
• → Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)

参考

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Further reading

• floppy disk on Wikipedia.
• floppy disk on Wikimedia Commons.